TEMPCHECK – what is my mandate as Executive Steward?

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TEMPCHECK – what is my mandate as Executive Steward during 3.0?

As I step into the Executive Steward role during Gitcoin 3.0, I want to be clear about what I believe my mandate is—and open the floor to feedback on whether the community agrees or sees it differently.

My WIP view of the mandate

  1. Return Gitcoin to its former glory
    • restore Gitcoin’s social, economic, and reputational standing as a premier place where Ethereum funds its most important problems.
  2. Secondarily, transition Gitcoin into a full-borne DAO
    • as stability and momentum are restored, and validated DAO primitives become available, shepherd Gitcoin into being a functional DAO—one that can sustain itself financially, has clarity of mission, effective governance, and resilient network leadership.
    • (hint this will look like a network not a hierachy and will look more like a 2025 era DAO than a 2021-era one)

Questions for the community (esp stewards)

  • Is this the right mandate?
  • Do you agree this is the right sequencing (first revival, then DAO transition)?
  • Are there other priorities you believe should be higher on the list?
  • How do you see the role of the ES in integrating near-term execution with long-term decentralization?
  • What are the success criteria you’d hold me accountable to during this phase? How should we balance power?

Next step

This is not about settling scores or re-litigating the past. It’s about aligning on a shared mandate so we can move forward together. I’d love to hear your perspectives—what do you think the ED’s mandate should be during 3.0?

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Hi Kevin,

From my point of view, you should be the sole executor by now until the organization is fully operational, or at least until you decide (the group, the board of directors as the stewards-You) or unless this scheme is run in parallel.
A- Gitcoin v3.0 - 3.3
B- Anything out of scope (allo.capital), you should include those (I believe) as a separate instance.
C- v3.3.X: You reiterate both into a consolidated formulation that automate allo.capital distirbution mechanism directly into any process for v3.3.X.

This aligns with your current proposal, where you revive the root of Gitcoin and transition back with a delegation of Stewards, or something else as a different approach and for example, using a distinctive governance protocol.

Once we, you, will pass this threshold, subsequent layers should be put in place as we learned from the previous experience, and so we should try to maximize retention and set the emphasis around financial scalability especially for capital distribution at large, using a mix of speed and agility, from my view at least.

Best regards,
Armand

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